Lebanese Lemonade Sorbet with Pistachio Nougat
From stonesoup 17 years ago
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- Serves 6
This is quite an involved recipe for a sorbet but the result is an amazingly zingy lemon hit. Eating a bowl of this give you that clean refreshed feeling like the hot towels they give you on airplanes.
Ingredients
- 8 large lemons shopping list
- 3/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 5/8 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 cup water shopping list
- 1.5 cups water shopping list
- drop orange blossom water shopping list
- 1T Turkish apple tea, optional shopping list
- 6-8 pieces pistachio nougat, to serve optional shopping list
How to make it
- Wash lemons and cut them into quarters. Place in a large ceramic bowl with 3/4cup sugar and crush lemons to release their juice and thoroughly blend in the sugar. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Make sugar syrup by combining 5/8cup sugar with water and bringing to the boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Allow this to cool.
- Pour the now cooled sugar syrup and additional water over lemons and refrigerate overnight or for at least 4 hours (don't cut this short).
- Strain juice from lemons and discard lemons. Add orange water and apple tea to the lemon juice and freeze in an icecream machine according to the manufacturer’s directions.
- When ready to serve, pile up the sorbet into tea cups. Serve with a slice of nougat.
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I can't wait to try this lemon sorbet. I prefer sorbets to icecream any day & this sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing it. Brianna
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Sometime we have a surplus of lemons and all my friends know that I love eating lemons more than oranges, therefor I always have some. Thanx for this great recipe it is summer right now & I will deft make it.
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